Quotes About Diversity

That's one of the luxuries of being able to do mixtapes, it's that you can do something different or you can do anything you want to do, how you're feeling at the time.

Make music when I want to in whatever style I would like to. That is something that I know that I'm not the only Nightwish member who has that. That's a luxury we can take, and we will.

I'm in a generation where MAC is the reigning brand for a lot of women - black, white, and other.

If we are going to build an ambitious machine, then it's got to be a global machine.

I'm not a hit machine.

I don't like that putdown: that when you're trying to achieve, you're trying to be white. That makes me mad.

Madrid and London are great.

Italian-Americans are not the Mafia.

I want to start the trans mafia one day.

Yeah, I like Three Six Mafia and stuff like that.

'Ebony' has been more than a magazine; it is a movement.

Someone coming out as gay shouldn't be newsworthy; it shouldn't be warranting a magazine cover or anything like that, which I had as my story for coming out.

I never saw anyone my size in magazines when I was younger.

I don't want to be in magazines everyday, because I don't want people to get used to one thing.

In a lot of movies, African-Americans are either maids or slaves, but that's not all they were. We need to show that. And we can't keep erasing history.

People are always thinking that I'm the main character in my books, but each one has been different, and sometimes they've been men.

The main thing my bookcase says about me is that I'm not French.

Equality, equality, equality. I'm all about equality, that's the main thing and the only thing I'm about.

When you're bi-racial, in the town I was in, in Maine, people kept asking, 'What are you?' It was like I wasn't even human.

North-east films are still not on a national level. But 'Axone' is a mainstream film. I found the script very authentic and also very funny.

I consider 'Dope' a part of the new mainstream.

Being mainstream is fun.

I'm interested in people who are dwelling outside the mainstream. And very often, those people happen to be woman of color.

Black people are not often considered mainstream.